” I’m really mystified that people can’t work out a couple of seat changes as a matter of courtesy. Almost everyone at some time or another asked another passenger if they’d mind switching seats for any number of reasons: so you could sit with a friend or relative...”
As a passenger, I would move if someone wanted to sit next to a friend or family member, but if a person wanted me to move seats because they refused to sit by a woman, a black, a white, a Hispanic, a Jew, a gay, or a Muslim, I would tell them ‘no way.’